WCWMonday Nitro was the weekly Mondaynight TV show on TNT, produced by the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

This rivalry is known to wrestling fans as the "MondayNight Wars." Throughout the MondayNight Wars between Eric Bischoff and Vince McMahon, Nitro was gaining on its WWF counterpart popularity-wise.

RAW was building for a future with a young Triple H and D-Generation X along with former WCW wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, who was becoming increasingly popular as a rule-breaking, unpredictable anti-hero.

With WWF RAW ending the War in the middle of a massive winning streak, it's easy to forget that WCW Nitro dominated a near two-year-long stretch of the ratings battle themselves, and that other periods of the MondayNight War were intensely competitive.

The Mondaynight slot captured Bischoff's attention because of the remarkable success the WWF had after converting their Mondaynight program from a studio-based highlights and recap show to a "live" in-arena program each week.

RAW was vulnerable, and Eric Bischoff, who had already taken big chances on hiring high price performers away from the WWF, decided to take one more chance: he asked Turner executives about going head-to-head with the WWF on Mondaynights.

The name "WWF War Zone" ("WWERAW Zone") was used for the second hour of "WWF Raw Is War" ("WWERAW") as a way to split the show into two separate shows and charge a higher advertisement rate in the second hour.

The current RAW is the successor to "WWF MondayNightRAW", which first aired in 1993 on USA Network.

RAW originated from a small New York City theater, the Manhattan Center, and aired live each week.

Footage was shown of last Mondaynight when Triple H and Evolution left Eugene and bloody mess in the ring.

Triple H said he felt horrible and it made him feel sick and he felt pain, it was a horrible feeling, and he started to think to himself that he can really feel this bad for doing what he did to Eugene last week, and then that's when it happened.

Back on RAW and La Resistance are in the ring and Conway got on the mic and said they would like to sing their Canadian National Anthem.

This RAW was more of a steady Nitro pace that lacked excitement during parts of it.

If this MondayNightRaw is any indication of the supposed new era of the WWF, then I am going to be one happy wrestling fan for a while!

Instead of having the show feature only a few superstars who reappear constantly throughout the 2 hours (DX was guilty of this during their prime), this RAW had a good mixture of lots of different angles and wrestlers appearing throughout it.

Raw opened with a 30-man battle royal for a match against John Cena later in the night for the WWE championship.

Seemingly having won the match against 29 other competitors Shawn Michaels began to celebrate only to be vaulted over the top rope by Edge who had exited the ring under the ropes but hadn’t been eliminated.

Tag-team champion Edge had secured his chance to upgrade his belt to the WWE Championship later in the night.

The first episode of MondayNightRAW aired on January 11, 1993, from the Manhattan Center in New York City and since has been broadcast from arenas around the world, including Madison Square Garden, Staples Center in Los Angeles, as well as London, England and Tokyo, Japan.

MondayNightRAW is currently seen on USA Network.

RAW is consistently the most watched year-round program on ad-supported cable television.

We had broadcast MondaynightRaw in San Antonio and had traveled to Houston to do the Smackdown TV taping on Tuesday September 11.

I am thinking that Mondaynight will be much the same for me. There will be specific images that I will see but in the spirit of attempting to entertain our TV viewers we will pay our respects, persevere, and move forward.

I was pumped to go to smackdown the mondaynight before, because this was the first time the WWE was back in Houston since WrestleMania X-Seven.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/preview/next week on the Raw family reunion, which only at the very end of the show last night was dubbed as "The biggest Raw in history" by Jim Ross, could mean many other huge things to happen....

Im almost 100% Kane is planning on taking time off RAW and he will lose the match against umaga just to give him time for what ever he is doing off set.

I mean this is a big event Smackdown,ECW and Raw could all be under the same roof and what a better way to hook the intrested wrestling fans that stopped watching after the brand split back into your product.But instead all the show really get's is an end of show mention last week,makes no sense.

It should be noted preliminarily that the challenged episode of WWF MondayNightRaw was preceded by an advisory stating that “The following program contains material that may offend some viewers.

The Panel considers it unnecessary to revisit the threshold issue of wrestling as sport, given that its position on the matter has already been enunciated in TSN re WWF MondayNightRaw (CBSC Decision 99/00-0398, January 31, 2001) and TSN re WWF Raw Is War (CBSC Decision 99/00-0607, January 31, 2001).

Similarly, in the case of the challenged episode of MondayNightRaw, there is violence present; however, that content is most assuredly not condoned.

Basing the numbers strictly on Raw's normal timeslot (9-11pm ET for two hours), the show actually did a 4.1 cable rating.

On a side note, MondayNight Football on ESPN drew a 10.3 cable rating.

While it could be said that high ratings for MondayNight Football in the last few weeks has hurt Raw, that certainly was not the case this past Mondaynight as Raw scored its highest number in months for the last two hours of the show.

The events on this week’s MondayNightRaw left many WWE Superstars seeing stars – and not just because the show took place in Hollywood.

Tonight’s Raw was such a blockbuster that the Superstars of SmackDown made a rare appearance.

The stunning – and gutsy – Kelly Kelly, seen Tuesdays on ECW on Sci-Fi, challenged Phoenix this Monday, and once again suffered a thrashing at the hands of the Women’s Champion, who won in under a minute.

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Another MondayNight Football promo, and we return with a discretion is advised promo.

Vince says he has every wrestler from Smackdown and Raw about to come out and shake his hand, and as he is about to do that, he changes his mind again.

During his appearance, Federline was involved in a physical confrontation with WWE Champion John Cena which saw the aspiring artist become the recipient of an F-U. K-Fed was furious with Cena’s actions and the treatment he received during his visit.

As a result, he has informed RAW’s Executive Assistant Jonathan Coachman that along with Melina, he will be in Johnny Nitro's corner for his match this Monday on RAW with Cena.

Cryme Tyme was victorious in their debut as RAW Superstars when the team of Shad and JTG stole a victory against the World Tag Team Champion Spirit Squad in a non-title match.